Living in a small town, a teen and his friends working in a gas station are alarmed to find that one of their customers is an escaped mental patient on a psychotic rampage through the community and try to confront him, setting off a desperate race to stop him and put an end to his rampage before they fall victim.
This was an overall decent low-budget slasher. Among its better features is the straightforward setup that allows the killer to get away with everything in the way he does. Showing his rampage on the outskirts of town in the woods, on lonely roads, and pretty much being away from civilization so that they take place away from those who can report it and leaving no one alive to witness it manages to be a nice touch here. That allows for a nice selection of ambushes and surprise attacks using whatever is at his disposal for the first part of this one which not only has some fun sequences but allows for a solid means of introducing the group to the killer that sets the finale of this one in motion. That early setup featuring a prominently psycho/thriller approach is then given a darker, more gruesome twist that leaves this quite fun. The nature of both the fighting and stalking on display and the cheesy, low-budget effects here mesh quite nicely making for a rather frantic and graphic genre outing at the best part of it. It's only more regrettable that the use of a gun for most of the deaths that has to be because of the low budget on display to not allow more variety or clever effects much like the randomized nature of the film going around seemingly through completely random encounters with unnamed strangers to simply provide a body count so it seems really out-of-focus at times. These do manage to stick out with this one.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.
